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"[Wolff's poems] are stylistic and tonal shapeshifters. Hip, contemplative, and dark and resistant to the hunky-dory, the New Agey, and the prescriptive, they're unnerving, funny, and occasionally subversive."-Bookforum Poet, novelist, and...

Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Erika Meitner's fifth collection of poetry plumbs human resilience and grit in the face of disaster, loss, and uncertainty...

Lisa Fishman's sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other--whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions...

In Hear Trains, Caroline Knox seeks further contexts for her striking diction and syntax to establish new forms of understanding. With her signature wit and erudition, she plumbs the depths of etymology, reading, art, and nature, of comma splices,...

Lisa Fishman's sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other--whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions...

"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelated--but which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of everyday life can be seen as the source for almost...

Author is a central member of San Francisco Bay Area writing community for 25 years as Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution, Archives Director for the American Poetry Archives at the Poetry Center at SFSU, and visiting teacher at Mills College...

Rock-Salt-Stone sprays life-preserving salt through the hard realities of rocks, stones, and rockstones used as anchors, game pieces, or weapons. The manuscript travels through Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA, including cultures and varieties of...

Haunted by on-line confessions, ranging from the trivial to the homicidal, and by a society obsessed with people changing their corporeal forms, Fleshgraphs is a multi-vocal manifesto of the body. Lyrical, experimental, satirical-these prose fragments...

Action in the Orchards' explores ekphrastic poetry and its possibilities through experiences and encounters, with art and architecture, with friends and lovers, with our own pasts and futures, how they intersect with language, and how language acts as a...

"Despite the rapids these poems navigate, each poem has an internal cohesiveness that cannot have been easy to achieve."--Dana Wilde, Bangor Daily News "The human voice is captured beautifully as one can almost hear the fist pounding the...

"Illuminated, feral, Kocot's creativity engenders an excitement comparable to being twelve years old, exposed to good poetry or music or art for the first time...One can't help but to be unsteady, but believe in that instability...She leaves us hanging...

Like moonlight, McCann's attention gives weird clarity and an alien glow to post-industrial landscapes and human interiors. These poems are startling and irreverent, but also emotional and approachable. They uncivilize us into seeing the world as both...

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2011 The poems in this collection inhabit several countries or no country at all, but many are concerned with boundaries: between words and silence, one person and another, today and tomorrow, freedom and fear. Although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929918010Author Richard GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 199g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694513Author Jade BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694049Author Cathy SosnowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897142318Author Lisa Martin-DemoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885030474Author Hal AlluriFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Kaya Production,U.S.Publisher Kaya Production,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876819828Author David P. ReiterPage Count 128Imprint Interactive PublicationsPublisher Interactive PublicationsWeight(grams) 0g

Winner, 1994 American Award for Literature: Belles Lettres. "[A] valuable contribution to American poetics."--Publishers WeeklyAbout the AuthorA poet, playwright, and novelist, Koch also published several books about poetry, including Rose, Where Did You...

Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents. It is a sweeping exposition on Jewish-American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory and inventive glory. Exploring how Jews shed minority status in America - in his own family and in...

L-vis lives! A poetic journey of artists past and present who use and misuse Black culture, L-vis traces the story of an American archetype, from Elvis Presley to Eminem. All aspects of this cultural phenomenon - both positive and negative - are taken...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. "We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597097604Author Ron KoertgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 227g

Equi's poems insist that despite the fact that most of our everyday reality has been rendered accountable and computable, there is still a region of experience that escapes our GPS-mapped consciousness-an intangible realm where poetry is still possible...

Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the space-odd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets. From "Hypotenuse": HYPOTENUSE...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890793Author Eliot KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559212724Author Deborah PeaseFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 695g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559212700Author Michael AnaniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559211871Author Ralph J. MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559213851Author Jeffery Renard AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 238g

The poems in Because You Previously Liked or Played explore a world that is increasingly mediated through technology; the personal and political struggle for meaning, connection, and reality run like a fever dream through the schizophrenic circuits of...

Louise Bak's second book, Tulpa (in Buddhist mysticism, a magical entity created by intensely concentrated thought), continues her challenging exploration of a broad range of themes and uses of the global lexicon. Combining a visual artist's flair for...

Winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry! A finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the Lambda Literary Award! In her ambitious follow-up to Hagiography, acclaimed poet Jen Currin continues her unique exploration of the surrealist lyric,...

Shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General's Award for Poetry! This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay...

At long last, this double-barrelled collection of visual poetry, sensory deprivation and dream poetics, by damian lopes is now in print. Considered visual essays by the author, sensory deprivation explores the visual noise and overload of contemporary...

Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov's evocations of 'movie magic' prove irresistible in these forty poems and five collages. Ranging across dozens of films -- from Wim Wender's Wings of Desire and Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law to Hitchcock's...

Steve Venright, the true heir to the literary legacy of Henri Michau, Christopher Dewdney and Jorge Luis Borges, is the only surrealist ever to come from Sarnia, Ontario. Spiral Agitator, his fourth book, is a sumptuous assortment of prose poems and...

A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock, Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and Hardy (including such great standup teams as HD and Ezra Pound, Jesus and Judas, and Steve McCaffery and bpNichol). Jeff...